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American-Soviet Cooperation ends at end of WW2
Marked by a great degree of cooperation and was essential to securing the defeat of Nazi Germany. Without the remarkable efforts of the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front, the United States and Great Britain would have been hard-pressed to score a decisive military victory over Nazi Germany. -
U.S Announces Marshall Plan
Proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
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Berlin Airlift
Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. -
U.S Announces “Containment”
A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam. -
Four Powers Divide Germany
The American, British, and French zones together made up the western two-thirds of Germany, while the Soviet zone comprised the eastern third. -
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Korean War
North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border. -
U.S Develops H-bomb
The United States detonates the world's first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb. -
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Creation of Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO. -
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Vietnam War
Also known as the Indochina war, was a conflict between Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia -
Soviet Union Develops H-bomb
The Soviet Union tested its first fusion-based device on a tower in central Siberia. The bomb had a yield of 400 kilotons -
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Khrushchev calls for “Peaceful Co-existence
The United States and USSR, and their respective political ideologies, could coexist rather than fighting one another. Khrushchev tried to prove that he would do the same by attending a peace conference. -
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Hungarian Revolt
It started with a student protest until it all escalated from there one student was wrapped in a flag and dangled above the crowd and other students got shot at. This started another revoltion. -
Sputnik is Launched
The Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I. The successful launch came as a shock to experts and citizens in the United States, who had hoped that the United States would accomplish this scientific advancement first. -
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution covertly financed and directed by the U.S. government, the operation took place at the height of the Cold War, and its failure led to major shifts in international relations between Cuba, the United States, and the Soviet Union. -
Berlin Wall is Built
The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to stop an exodus from the eastern, communist part of divided Germany to the more prosperous West. Later on more the 2.6 million people escaped. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
When American deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of similar ballistic missiles in Cuba. -
American-Soviet Hotline Established
The first official use of the hotline by the United States was when John F. Kennedy was assassinated on 22 November 1963. The first official use by the Soviet Union was on 5 June 1967 during the outbreak of the Six-Day War. -
Partial Test Ban Treaty Signed
Prohibited all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground. -
Czech Uprising
Partially successful attempt by the Czech resistance to liberate the city of Prague from German occupation during World War II. -
U.S Votes to Admit Communist China into U.N
The Communist P.R.C. therefore assumed the R.O.C.’s place in the General Assembly as well as its place as one of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. -
Salt Treaty Signed
Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed the ABM Treaty and interim SALT agreement. -
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Helsinki Accords
The document signed at the closing meeting of the third phase of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The war caused grave destruction in Afghanistan and is believed to have contributed to the Soviet collapse, in hindsight leaving a mixed legacy to people in both territories. -
Polish Solidarity Uprising
Associated with the emergence of the Solidarity mass movement in the Polish People's Republic, challenged the rule of the Polish United Workers' Party and Poland's alignment with the Soviet Union. -
U.S Star Wars Research begins
Strategic Defense Initiative, an ambitious project that would construct a space-based anti-missile system. -
I.N.F. Treaty Signed
President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev of the Soviet Union and prohibited nuclear and conventional weapons that could travel between 500 to 5,000 kilometers. -
Iron Curtain Collapse
Marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe. -
Germany is reunited
It is officially referred as German Unity -
START
The treaty limited the number of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles and nuclear warheads either country could possess. -
Soviet Union Ceases to Exist
When the Soviet Union fell, it ended the tenure of a superpower with the resources of more than a dozen countries. -
Berlin wall torn down
President Ronald Reagan challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.